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An agent provocateur may be a police officer or a secret agent of police who encourages suspects to carry out a crime under conditions where evidence can be obtained; or who suggests the commission of a crime to another, in hopes they will go along with the suggestion and be convicted of the crime.
The following is a list of slang terms used to refer to federal agents, which are used by the public, members of organized crime, anti-establishment political groups or individuals, and occasionally other federal employees. This list does not encompass slang terms used to refer to local police departments, nor those that denote the agencies ...
Agent Flemming from Beavis and Butthead Do America; Agent J from the movies Men in Black (film), Men in Black II; Agent K from the movies Men in Black (film), Men in Black II; Agent Larabee from the 1960s spy satire/parody sitcom, Get Smart; Agent Six from Generator Rex; Agent Smith of The Matrix (franchise)
The word entrapment, from the verb "to entrap", meaning to catch in a trap, was first used in this sense in 1899 [6] in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit case of People v Braisted. [7] [8] The 1828 edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language defines entrap as:
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
A person who commits espionage is called an espionage agent or spy. [1] Any individual or spy ring (a cooperating group of spies), in the service of a government, company, criminal organization, or independent operation, can commit espionage. The practice is clandestine, as it is by definition unwelcome.
“I’m looking for President Trump to show up in the last 80 days to define what he will do for our country, to fix broken borders, to lower inflation,” Graham added.
In espionage, a sleeper agent is one who has infiltrated the target country and has "gone to sleep", sometimes for many years. The agent makes no attempt to communicate with the sponsor or any existing agents or to obtain information beyond what is public, and becomes active only upon receiving a pre-arranged signal or message from the sponsor or a fellow agent.